Mt. Lake Park
Mt. Lake Park is 85 acres; a spectacular setting for an event such as our Tai Chi & Qigong Festival and Symposium. It has a variety of buildings and amenities with wide open spaces of woods and fields for both indoor and outdoor workshops. Although we've established an indoor location for each workshop in the event of heat or rain, there will also be a designated outdoor location for each workshop so that, at the discretion of the workshop leader, the workshop can be held outside.
In the past, only those few lucky individuals (normally workshop leaders) who were invited (and could fit) in Bruce's house had "on-site accommodations". Everyone else had to find a hotel to stay in (or an understanding friend to stay with), which wasn't easy because except for one motel five miles up the road, every other hotel was at least 15 miles away from Bruce's house in Wantage.
Mt. Lake Park, on the other hand, has a plethora of accommodations. Starting with the eight apartments; fully individual apartments within 2 stories in the apartment building right next to the Lodge. Each has it own bathroom, a bedroom with a queen sized bed, and a living room (with a couch, though not necessarily large enough for an additional person).
Next are the cabins. Cabins have a mixture of queen sized beds and individual single beds, but most are in independent rooms. Three or four rooms in the same cabin share a bathroom and a living room.
Both apartments and cabins will be provided with sheets, pillow cases, towels, and linens. The beds are priced at $145 per night for an apartment queen, $135 per night for a cabin queen.
Single beds in the cabins are $85 per night.
Cabins and apartments reservations will be made available on a first-come, first-served basis. If you want to reserve one, you should be quick to register where you can choose exactly which cabin you plan to reserve. (Organizers, workshop leaders, and volunteers get to pre-register before anyone else, so if you want to be sure you get one, consider volunteering!)
If you like to rough it like the good ol' days of the Tai Chi Farm (where virtually everyone pitched a tent), then you are in luck! For a nominal $10 fee, you can pitch a tent anywhere in the woods by the lake. The same goes for if you have an RV or plan to sleep in your car (or on someone's couch or floor). There are bathrooms available in the lodge and other buildings (though you may have to convince a friend to let you use their shower).
There are other buildings on site where we will be holding workshops; a beautiful lakeside pavilion, an indoor theatre, and an art and dance studio. The lodge itself has a lounge and a dining room. It also has one large open space which we will also use for workshops. We will be using these as the indoor space for the workshops. As noted, we've also established an outdoor space, depending upon the weather and the inclinations of the workshop leader.
